We raise black Angus beef cattle.
It's calving season right now and we have 8 little ones on the ground with 7 left to drop yet.
It's amazing to watch Mother Nature at work when it's time to feed on mama's teet.
Every one of those identical looking black calves easily finds their mother's nipple from a herd of all black mamas.
Seems almost impossible to a novice observer.
Little cows do drink milk.
Your story reminds me of when I visited camel herders in Mongolia just over a year ago. When it came time to milk the camels, the herders tethered the baby camels to ropes laid across the ground. The mother camels lined up and waited. When it was her turn for milking, the camel at the front of the line would go to her baby and nurse it. After a few minutes, the herders would step in, stop the baby from nursing, and milk the camel.
Camel milk tea was not bad, and neither was camel stew.